Types of improving crops
How many types of crops can be used to improve the soil?
What are four types of soil improving crops?
Particularly vigorous and fast growing plants to overwhelm competitors.
What are Smother crops?
These can supply all of the nitrogen your soil needs.
What are properly managed nitrogen fixing crops?
Soluble nutrient absorbent crops are a virtue for this season.
What is winter?
Best sources of organic matter.
What are cereals?
Hardy plants planted in the fall to protect the soil over the winter
What are cover crops?
Grown as compost crops to supply specific nutrients.
What are Dynamic Accumulators?
Nodes on roots create the symbiotic relationship with these bacteria to fix nitrogen from the air.
What are Rhizobium?
Damage from these three elements of nature in winter are prevented in a greater degree by soil cover crops.
What is erosion by sun, rain, and wind?
Green manure crops produce food for these living creatures.
What is microbial organisms?
These suppress perennial weeds that can get out of control.
What are smother crops?
Crops that reach subsoil for the nutrients found there.
What are Deep-rooted crops?
Legumes aren't able to fix nitrogen with these conditions present.
What is already nitrogen rich soil and what is absent bacteria?
Uncovered soil in winter loses as much as 60kg/ha of nitrogen and 45 kg/ha potassium per season.
What is leaching?
One very good way to increase organic matter but takes 2 years at least to work.
What is leave it in grass?
They may be grown to fix atmospheric nitrogen.
What are green manures?
Valuable soil improving crops that fix nitrogen in the soil.
What are Legumes?
The color of the interior part of the node in a nitrogen producing plant that isn't producing nitrogen.
What is pale white?
Particles that are formed by the organisms that have secretions that glue them together.
What are aggregates?
Microbial population growth can eliminate some of the other not so desirable living matter.
What are pathogens?
Planting time between a direct sown crop and living mulch.
What is 4 to 5 weeks?
Grown specifically to supply material for the compost pile.
What are Sunflowers, Comfrey, Corn, Sweet Clover, African Marigold, Mustards and certain types of grass?
This is how to help nitrogen fixing plants to get the appropriate bacteria
What is inoculation?
Winter cover crops that mature by spring and are incorporated into the soil created aggregates and making tiny channels for the next crop by then.
What is better conditions?
A good way to reduce organic matter in your soil.